点评:For quite some time, a friend and I had planned a trip with Hike Chile (Sebastian) to one of the remotest areas in the Argentina/Chilean andes, with no access to water for a long time, and he had stressed (and we agreed) that for that reason we needed two vehicles that are in excellent mechanical condition. We paid roughly USD 11.000 for eleven days as a consequence. At our starting point, San Pedro de Atacama, his team showed up with a stone-age HiLux and a JAC belching clouds of blue smoke. A dozen miles before the proposed based camp, BOTH cars had broken down with engine damage more than a hundred km away from the next human settlement, at an altitude of 4.800m. We were lucky to be exfiltrated, after a while, by some locals from that settlement that friends had managed to reach once alerted by us via (our) sat phone. For the remaining five days, with five persons jammed in one of the cars brought back to temporary life by a makeshift repair (and that lost its cardan shaft on the third day of the return trip!) we struggled back to our departure point in Chile. Very different trip than that we had planned for years, and of course we had missed "our" mountain. The Hike Chile team Sebasatian had commissioned for us was sympathetic and helpful throughout, but their saving a few miserable dollars by showing up with two wrecks on a trip like this, and virtually putting our lives in jeopardy and ruining our trip, shows that their organizers aren't excessively trustworthy, to put it mildly. Sebastian agreed to at least pay us a small refund for what we had been through, but there has been complete radio silence since. E-mails remain unanswered. Overall, not a great experience.
翻译:很长一段时间以来,我和一个朋友一直计划与 Hike Chile(Sebastian)一起去阿根廷/智利安第斯山脉最偏远的地区之一旅行,那里很长时间没有水源,他强调(我们也同意)为此我们需要两辆机械状况良好的车辆。因此,我们支付了大约 11,000 美元,租用了 11 天。在我们的出发点圣佩德罗德阿塔卡马,他的团队开着一辆石器时代的 HiLux 和一辆喷着蓝烟的江淮汽车出现了。在距拟议的营地十几英里的地方,两辆车都因引擎损坏而抛锚了,距离下一个人类定居点有一百多公里,海拔 4,800 米。幸运的是,过了一会儿,我们被一些定居点的当地人救了出来,我们的朋友在收到我们的卫星电话警报后设法联系上了他们。剩下的五天,我们五个人挤在一辆临时修理过的车里(这辆车在回程第三天失去了万向轴!),艰难地回到了智利的出发点。这次旅行与我们多年来计划的旅行大不相同,当然,我们也错过了“我们的”山峰。塞巴斯蒂安为我们安排的智利徒步旅行队自始至终都很同情和乐于助人,但他们为了省下几美元,却在这样的旅行中带着两辆破车,几乎把我们的生命置于危险之中,毁了我们的旅行,这说明他们的组织者不太值得信赖,说得客气一点。塞巴斯蒂安同意至少给我们一点小额退款,以弥补我们的损失,但从那以后就完全没有消息了。电子邮件仍然没有回复。总的来说,这不是一次很好的体验。